WWII Forums Quiz Part V

Steve, you believe absolutely right, and the floor is yours....

 

*bump*

 

Indeed Kai

That is the wright answer. The court is yours

Pop

 

Afraid GdI Frederick has it right on this one. It was Hitler not Student that came up with the glider attack on Eben Emael. Student was called to Berlin by Göring and had a meeting with Hitler were he was asked if a glider attack was possible. When Student said it was, Hitler then ordered Student to take Eben Emael and also told him of the new Hohladung (hollow charge) explosive device he would be using.
Hitler's idea for the attack came from his study of the WW I attack on Fort Douaumont. Hitler also relayed that his idea for gliders came about from trying to solve the problem of how to get the 110 lb hollow charges onto the fort.
See: Prelude to Dunkirk: The Fall of Eben Emael by James E. Mrazek.

 

Who was the German air force Chief of Staff that met with Hitler to plan the air supply of Stalingrad?

 

Marshal Erhard Milch

 

Sorry Kai, not correct.

 

Generaloberst Hans Jeschonnek. Later committed suicide on 17 Aug 1943 as a result of US and British bombing successes at Regensburg and Peenemünde on that date.

 

Correct, over to you T.A.

 

Staying with the Stalingrad airlift, what was the date and tonnage flown in on the best day of the airlift?

 

The most
succesful day was Dec. 7th, 1942.
362 ton supply was flown in.

http://216.198.255.120/germanpart/airstat.html

 

We have a winner! Your turn Kai.

 

Thanx T.A.!

Name the Britain's first airborne assault in WW2?

 

Bruneval France 27 February 1942. Major Frost (of Arnheim Bridge fame) commanding C company of the 2nd Parachute Battalion, 1st Airborne Division dropped on Bruneval France to take the Würtzburg radar station there, steal the radar and, make off by sea with it. The operation was code named Biting. It also marks the first time commando type units were used for electronic intelligence gathering by capturing vital systems and making off with them.
This was the first operation by British paratroops in WW II.

 

X Troop, 11 Special Air Service Battalion Feb 1941. 'Operation Colossus' the attack on the Tragino Aqueduct in Italy.

 

Operation Colossus is the right answer.

Over to you Peter!

 

Thanks Kai.

Generals Harold Alexander, Claude Auchinleck, Alan Brooke, John Dill, Bernard Montgomery and Brian Horrocks.

Apart from North Africa, what did they all have in common?

Peter

 

It's the first hit when you do a google search with the last names of these commanders: they were all of Irish ancestry.

 

Darn google

Over to you Monty.

 

HAha!! I got it....OK, here goes:

OK, the answer to this *should* be in someone's knowledge base, so google hopefully won't be necessary.

Question:
Hiroo Onoda holds the "honor" of being the last Japanese soldier to surrender. He Finally packed it in during 1974, surrendering on Lubang Island in the Phillipines. Several attempts were made to persuade Hiroo to surrender, but what act was required to convince Onoda to give in.